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Sarah Padden

Personal Information

Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Born / DiedOct 15, 1881 (Died at 86)
Zodiac Sign♎Libra
Place of BirthSunderland, England, UK
Career Span1926 – 1967
Known Credits139 Titles
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ActingPopularity Score 0.9

Sarah Padden

Also known as:Sarah Ann PaddenSara Padden
Total Works

139

131 movies • 8 shows

Avg Rating

6.2 / 10

across rated releases

Box Office

—

worldwide gross

Global Reach

#1

TMDB star index

Biography

Sarah Padden was a character actress in theater and vaudeville from Chicago, Illinois. She performed on stage in the early 20th century. She is noted for her expressive voice and for her psychological studies of the characters she portrayed. Her finest single-act performance was in The Clod, a stage production in which she played an uneducated woman who lived on a farm during the American Civil War. Padden was a featured player on the Orpheum Circuit, Inc.. She had a role in His Grace de Grammont, a romantic comedy by Clyde Fitch which came to the Park Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts in September 1905. The production starred Skinner and was based on the life of a chevalier in the court of Charles II. Padden appeared again with Skinner in a four-act play produced by Charles Frohman, The Honor of the Family, by Emile Fabre, which was presented in New Rochelle, New York in September 1907. Another of her theatrical parts was in Hell-Bent Fer Heaven, a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Hatcher Hughes. It was performed at the Wilkes Orange Grove Theater (Majestic Theater), 845 South Broadway (Los Angeles), in November 1925. She was also an active screen actress from 1926 to 1958, appearing in 178 films and TV shows. In 1938, she played Ma Thayer in MGM's Rich Man Poor Girl, directed by Reinhold Schunzel and starring Robert Young, Ruth Hussey, and Lana Turner. Bill Harrison (Robert Young) a wealthy young businessman moves in with secretary girlfriend Joan Thayer's (Ruth Hussey) eccentric family to convince her they can make their marriage work. In 1941, she played wealthy spinster Aunt Cassandra ("Cassie") Hildegarde Denham in Murder by Invitation, directed by Phil Rosen and starring Wallace Ford and Marian Marsh. In this "closed room" murder comedy, after they unsuccessfully attempt to have her declared legally insane to gain control of her fortune, her nephews and nieces are invited to a week's visit at her mansion where they are murdered one by one.

Signature Roles & Milestones

Grand Hotel
7.0
Grand Hotel
1932•movie
as Chambermaid in Room 174 (uncredited)
This Gun for Hire
7.0
This Gun for Hire
1942•movie
as Mrs. Mason (uncredited)
The Pride of the Yankees
7.3
as Mrs. Roberts (uncredited)
Hangmen Also Die!
6.9
Hangmen Also Die!
1943•movie
as Mrs. Georgia Dvorak

Full Filmography & Credits

Showing 139 titles featuring Sarah Padden

Grand Hotel
7.0
Grand Hotel
1932•movie

as Chambermaid in Room 174 (uncredited)

This Gun for Hire
7.0
This Gun for Hire
1942•movie

as Mrs. Mason (uncredited)

The Pride of the Yankees
7.3

as Mrs. Roberts (uncredited)

Hangmen Also Die!
6.9
Hangmen Also Die!
1943•movie

as Mrs. Georgia Dvorak

Mad Love
7.0
Mad Love
1935•movie

as Crippled Girl's Mother (Uncredited)

House by the River
6.8
House by the River
1950•movie

as Mrs. Beach - Stephen's elderly cook

Anna Karenina
6.6
Anna Karenina
1935•movie

as Governess

Possessed
6.9
Possessed
1947•movie

as Mrs. Norris, the Caretaker’s Wife (uncredited)

A Woman's Face
6.8
A Woman's Face
1941•movie

as Police Matron

Mata Hari
6.2
Mata Hari
1931•movie

as Sister Teresa (uncredited)

Adventures of Superman
6.6
1 eps

as Mrs. Carmody

Red-Headed Woman
6.6
Red-Headed Woman
1932•movie

as Mary, Legendre Maid (uncredited)

Ramrod
6.5
Ramrod
1947•movie

as Mrs. Parks

Angel on My Shoulder
6.5

as Agatha (uncredited)

Bad Girl
6.0
Bad Girl
1931•movie

as Mrs. Gardner

The Mad Monster
3.4
The Mad Monster
1942•movie

as Grandmother

Dakota
5.2
Dakota
1945•movie

as Mrs. Plummer

The Lone Ranger
6.7
1 eps
The Lone Ranger
1949•series

as Grandma Williams

Dragnet
6.5
1 eps
Dragnet
1951•series
Big Jim McLain
5.0
Big Jim McLain
1952•movie

as Mrs. Lexiter

Screaming Mimi
5.0
Screaming Mimi
1958•movie

as Landlady

The Sin of Nora Moran
5.5

as Mrs. Watts

Casanova Brown
6.4
Casanova Brown
1944•movie

as Mrs. Smith

Kongo
6.4
Kongo
1932•movie

as Nun (uncredited)

The Abbott and Costello Show
7.2
1 eps

as Old Lady on Street

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
6.7

as Woman Wanting Needle Threaded (uncredited)

A Life of Her Own
5.2
A Life of Her Own
1950•movie

as Betsy Ross Hotel Overseer (uncredited)

Pilgrimage
7.1
Pilgrimage
1933•movie
The Return of the Whistler
6.0

as Mrs. Hulskamp

The Power and the Glory
5.9

as Henry's Wife

The Yellow Ticket
5.1
The Yellow Ticket
1931•movie

as Mother Kalish

Apology for Murder
4.9
Apology for Murder
1945•movie

as Maggie

Billy the Kid
4.7
Billy the Kid
1930•movie

as Homesteader Mrs. Foster (uncredited)

Rasputin and the Empress
5.5

as Duna the Landlady (uncredited)

That Brennan Girl
5.5
That Brennan Girl
1946•movie

as Mrs. Graves, the Nice Landlady

Summer Storm
5.6
Summer Storm
1944•movie

as Beggar Woman (uncredited)

Lady in a Jam
5.6
Lady in a Jam
1942•movie

as Miner’s Wife (uncredited)

Trail Street
6.5
Trail Street
1947•movie

as Mrs. Ferguson (uncredited)

Ann Vickers
5.8
Ann Vickers
1933•movie

as Lil

Wild Girl
6.2
Wild Girl
1932•movie

as Lize

City of Missing Girls
4.7

as Mrs. Randolph

Murder by Invitation
6.0

as Cassandra Hildegard Denham

Doctor Bull
6.7
Doctor Bull
1933•movie

as Mary the Canning Cook

Blondie of the Follies
6.3

as Ma McClune

The Cisco Kid
6.2
1 eps
The Cisco Kid
1950•series

as Mrs. Smiley

Cross-Examination
5.1
Cross-Examination
1932•movie

as Mary Stevens

He Was Her Man
6.5
He Was Her Man
1934•movie

as Mrs. Gardella

Private Snuffy Smith
4.2

as Lowizie Smith

The Defense Rests
7.1
The Defense Rests
1934•movie

as Mrs. Evans

The Corsican Brothers
7.0

as Nurse

Homicide
5.7
Homicide
1949•movie

as Mrs. Webb

Rich Man, Poor Girl
6.1

as Ma

As the Earth Turns
5.6
As the Earth Turns
1934•movie

as Mrs. Janowski

Reg'lar Fellers
4.2
Reg'lar Fellers
1941•movie

as Hetty Carter

Tomorrow's Children
5.0
The Navy Way
6.2
The Navy Way
1944•movie

as Mrs. Margaret Gimble (uncredited)

Girl with an Itch
5.2
Girl with an Itch
1958•movie

as Cookie

My Dog Shep
6.2
My Dog Shep
1946•movie

as Carrie Hodgkins

The Kettles in the Ozarks
6.4

as Mrs. Tinware

Youth on Parole
3.9
Youth on Parole
1937•movie

as Mrs. Blair

The Dude Goes West
5.9
The Dude Goes West
1948•movie

as Mrs. Hallihan

So This Is Washington
5.3

as Aunt Charity Speers

Identity Unknown
5.4
Identity Unknown
1945•movie

as Mrs. Anderson

Letter to Loretta
6.6
1 eps
Letter to Loretta
1953•series

as Frau Lang

So Goes My Love
7.3
So Goes My Love
1946•movie

as Bridget

The Hoosier Schoolmaster
4.3

as Sarah

Assignment in Brittany
7.1

as Albertine

Young America
5.5
Young America
1932•movie

as Mrs. Mary Taylor

Song of Old Wyoming
5.7

as Ma Conway

Stranded
6.0
Stranded
1935•movie

as Workman's Wife (uncredited)

Exiled to Shanghai
5.5
Exiled to Shanghai
1937•movie

as Aunt Jane

In Old Colorado
6.4
In Old Colorado
1941•movie

as Ma Harriet Woods

Son of the Navy
6.2
Son of the Navy
1940•movie

as Mrs. Baker - Landlady

San Diego I Love You
6.8

as Mrs. Gulliver (uncredited)

The Man Who Lost Himself
5.4

as Maid

Off the Record
6.4
Off the Record
1939•movie

as Mrs. Fallon (uncredited)

Wonder of Women
4.0
Wonder of Women
1929•movie

as Anna

Forgotten Girls
5.6
Forgotten Girls
1940•movie

as Miss Donaldson

Family Troubles
6.8
Family Troubles
1943•movie

as Mrs. Jones

The Midnight Lady
6.5
The Midnight Lady
1932•movie

as Nita St. George

Face in the Sky
5.8
Face in the Sky
1933•movie

as Ma Brown

Chad Hanna
7.0
Chad Hanna
1940•movie

as Mrs. Todd

Woman Against Woman
7.0

as Dora

Let Freedom Ring
6.8
Let Freedom Ring
1939•movie

as 'Ma' Logan

Trifles
5.0
Trifles
1930•movie

as Mrs. Wright

Ghost Guns
6.1
Ghost Guns
1944•movie

as Aunt Sally

Wild Bill Hickok Rides
5.5

as Mrs. Kimball

Prince of Players
5.5
Prince of Players
1955•movie

as Mary Todd Lincoln (uncredited)

Public Defender
6.2
1 eps
Public Defender
1954•series

as Eula Mae Carter

Today
3.3
Today
1930•movie

as Emma Warner

The Zero Hour
5.3
The Zero Hour
1939•movie

as Sister Theodosia

The Sophomore
5.3
The Sophomore
1929•movie

as Mrs. Collins

Frontier Revenge
6.7
Frontier Revenge
1948•movie

as Widow Owens

Should a Girl Marry?
5.7

as Mrs. Wilson

Little Tough Guys in Society
7.3

as Victim

Utah Wagon Train
6.7
Utah Wagon Train
1951•movie

as Sarah Wendover

Love and Learn
6.7
Love and Learn
1947•movie

as Mrs. Grant (uncredited)

Again Pioneers
5.7
Again Pioneers
1950•movie

as Ma Ashby

Companionate Marriage
3.3

as Mrs. Williams

This Is the Life
6.0
This Is the Life
1944•movie

as Sarah (uncredited)

The Life Of Riley
6.7
3 eps
The Life Of Riley
1953•series

as Martha Riley

Women in Prison
8.0
Women in Prison
1938•movie

as Martha Wilson

Heart of the Rio Grande
9.0

as 'Skipper' Forbes

Riders of the West
6.5
Riders of the West
1942•movie

as Ma Turner

Girl Rush
6.0
Girl Rush
1944•movie

as Mrs. Emma Mason

The Great Meadow
6.0
The Great Meadow
1931•movie

as Mistress Molly Hall

David Harum
7.5
David Harum
1934•movie

as Widow

Women Won't Tell
7.0
Women Won't Tell
1932•movie

as Aggie Specks

Tess of the Storm Country
7.0

as Old Martha

The Important Witness
7.5

as Deaf Woman

Romance of the Limberlost
6.5

as Sarah

Wildfire
4.0
Wildfire
1945•movie

as Aunt Agatha

A Dog of Flanders
7.5
A Dog of Flanders
1935•movie

as Frau Keller

Man of Two Worlds
6.5
Man of Two Worlds
1934•movie

as Olago

Law and Order
7.5
Law and Order
1942•movie

as Mary Todd

Gunslingers
6.5
Gunslingers
1950•movie

as Rawhide Rosie Rawlins

The Missourians
8.0
The Missourians
1950•movie

as Mother Kovacs

I Stole a Million
8.0
I Stole a Million
1939•movie

as Lady in Post Office (uncredited)

Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
8.0

as Mom Palooka

Joe Palooka in the Knockout
8.0

as Mom Palooka

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
10.0

as Mrs Cobb

The Woman Who Did Not Care
8.0

as Mrs. Carroll

Hide-Out
10.0
Hide-Out
1930•movie

as Mrs. Dorgan

Obey the Law
10.0
Obey the Law
1926•movie

as The Mother

Riders of the Dawn
10.0
Riders of the Dawn
1945•movie

as Melinda Pringle

The Master Key
8.0
The Master Key
1945•movie

as Aggie

Idea Girl
8.0
Idea Girl
1946•movie

as Old Lady

Lone Star Raiders
10.0
Lone Star Raiders
1940•movie

as Lydia 'Granny' Phelps

Marshal of Laredo
8.0
Marshal of Laredo
1945•movie

as Mrs. Randall

Range Law
9.0
Range Law
1944•movie

as Boots Annie

Trail to Gunsight
10.0
Trail to Gunsight
1944•movie

as Grandma Wagner

Wild West
9.0
Wild West
1946•movie

as Carrie Bannister

Range Justice
7.0
Range Justice
1949•movie

as Ma Curtis

The Bugle Call
10.0
The Bugle Call
1927•movie

as Luke's Wife

Joe Palooka, Champ
8.0
Joe Palooka, Champ
1946•movie

as Mom Palooka

Sob Sister
7.0
Sob Sister
1931•movie

as Ma Stevens

When Strangers Meet
10.0

as Lucy Tarman

The Power of God
The Power of God
1942•movie

as Esther Worne

Gentleman Joe Palooka

as Mom Palooka